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Please do not write off off-meta picks immediately

Your Next Kill·2/28/2017, 6:15:33 PM·4 votes·971 views

This has happened COUNTLESS times to me in my games. Just because something is off-meta does NOT MEAN THAT IT WILL NOT WORK. Sure, if it doesn't work, it can be frustrating, but you're setting yourself up for failure when someone shows an off-meta pick in champ select and you immediately think "Oh, this isn't meta, we lost because of this guy". That attitude is what's going to cost you the game.

Every champ can win a game in any role if you play them and around them properly. For example, in one of my promo games out of Bronze 5 (kms), I had to play against a Volibear - Fiddlesticks bot lane. I was mid, so I assumed that they would get crushed by our bot lane and we would win the game easily since they didn't have an ADC. Guess what happened? Our bot lane was 0-11 by 10 minutes. They both got strong as fuck, then proceeded to roam around and dominate everyone in sight. We lost so badly, all due to Fiddlesticks and Volibear in bot lane, and since no one had ever played against a team comp like that, we didn't know how to stop it. That's one of the advantages of off-meta picks - the surprise factor. If you understand what you need to do AS the off-meta guy, and do it successfully, the blind sheep on the enemy team will often times not know how to play against it, especially in low elo like me. This leads to an easier win and a great learning experience for everyone.

Yes, off-meta picks can also be confusing to play WITH, and cause frustration when they aren't doing very well, but do not go into the game saying "we're already fucked, we have a Soraka mid, we lost gg". This spreads toxicity and salt, which is the #1 reason why games are lost or thrown. NOT because someone wanted to go off-meta.

Have a great day everyone.

7 Comments

Ahristocats2/28/2017, 6:54:13 PM2 votes

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Just because something is off-meta does NOT MEAN THAT IT WILL NOT WORK

It's k, random 4 people who never saw adc darius in their life know better than i do if it will work or not

Woodakoodashooda2/28/2017, 6:21:48 PM2 votes

Long ago, we had a Soraka jungle.

She did poorly, but only one of our allies cared so much to rage at her about it. The guy went afk at the fountain for minutes at the time while the rest of us continued on playing.

The guy eventually came back and we won the game, but not because of him and certainly not because we had a Soraka jungle.

It's because the rest of us were chill about it.

I even said "Our Soraka has more balls than this guy" in reference to the player who went afk and we all laughed about it as we stomped out way down mid.

jinxedchef2/28/2017, 6:42:46 PM1 votes

Just because something different might work sometimes, doesn't mean it will work a majority of times. A broken clock is right twice a day. And just because you had fun playing something stupid doesn't mean your team mates enjoyed their loss.

pandorahearts3302/28/2017, 6:51:10 PM1 votes

To be fair its bronze. Even a person playing ap zed can win.

LawUrDepravdHart2/28/2017, 7:51:11 PM1 votes

Any champion can work in bronze because at that level the players don't know what any of the champions do or how to stop them. Even if they do know what they do or how to stop them, then the mechanics are likely so poor that they cannot execute their plans.

lilpokfluf2/28/2017, 6:48:21 PM1 votes

I have nothing against off meta, in fact I encourage everyone to play champs they like. But you should not expect jungler time and resources to be given to you just because you can't cs or keep dying. It's really discouraging seeing rengar top crying for ganks when he chose to play into that lane.

Nick Da Chip2/28/2017, 6:37:40 PM1 votes

This is all very true but making a thread about it isn't gonna change anyone's mind as long as they are a toxic player. If they see something they don't like or understand prepare to be flamed. The worst ones are the people who are seemingly good at this game that do it.